Today we look again at the Sabbath rest and how it is related to God’s dealing with His people and His judgment upon them that they could enter into that rest. Hebrew is a book of warnings. Warnings to believers. We know that in our salvation we are spared God’s judgment on our sins. But what does it mean that “judgment begins at the House of God?” We will look at how God will judge His children in the coming age.

We are going to begin today’s life study of Hebrews by looking at a verse in 1 Peter 4:17 “judgment begins at the House of God”. Surely this refers to us, the church. Yet Christians don’t typically think of judgment having any implication for us once we are saved. What is the context that God will judge His believers?

Jacob returns to the place of his dream in chapter 28. It must significant that after so many dealings and events in Jacob’s life that God would bring him back to the place that Jacob had identified as the House of God.